What are you reading right now?

savannah · 04-01-2009, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by 333

I agree, sav - I'm equally lost with this one. Though I understand the words you're saying, I think it'd help us all out if you went into more detailed about something this specific.

lol

its like,...i know what you just said,...but,...uhh,....why

Kevorkian Logic · 04-01-2009, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent

if there is an issue of disrupted equilibrium, i think increasing social homogeneity has to be seen as a consequence of material forces, the shift toward a decentralized technocratic society... we're all robots why not act like it... that sort of thing

you haven't said much of anything, you just implied a **** ton, and you lost a lot of what of the little you did say (or what I think you're trying to say) in sounding pretentious.

cardboard adolescent · 04-01-2009, 05:08 PM

well what is this "manhood" thing we're talking about? we're increasingly moving to a state where physical labor is replaced by machinery to most jobs can be fulfilled by most people, and it's more a matter of intelligence and will rather than physical standards. as such, the social distinctions based on those physical standards slowly degenerate since they no longer have anything substantial supporting them, except for nostalgia. pretty much we're moving towards a state where all human beings are functionally equivalent and are measured more and more in terms of economical production rather than whatever social constructs they cling to (this is due in part to globalization). however i would maintain that there is a certain degree of "innateness" which these roles we construct play, and that as such it isn't a matter of simply another step in our natural evolution but rather a question of an anti-evolutionary, inorganic anomaly that we have to deal with. by which i refer to the growing military industrial complex tendency towards complete bureaucratization and blind capitalism. naturally.

adidasss · 04-01-2009, 05:16 PM

Yeah, make a topic people.

savannah · 04-01-2009, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

Yeah, make a topic people.

for the record,...this is not what i intended

333 · 04-01-2009, 05:19 PM

I'm sorry. I started this, but I already shut up and suggested that we make a topic. However, I am supposed to be running so off I go FOR REAL this time.

Kevorkian Logic · 04-01-2009, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent

well what is this "manhood" thing we're talking about? we're increasingly moving to a state where physical labor is replaced by machinery to most jobs can be fulfilled by most people, and it's more a matter of intelligence and will rather than physical standards. as such, the social distinctions based on those physical standards slowly degenerate since they no longer have anything substantial supporting them, except for nostalgia. pretty much we're moving towards a state where all human beings are functionally equivalent and are measured more and more in terms of economical production rather than whatever social constructs they cling to (this is due in part to globalization). however i would maintain that there is a certain degree of "innateness" which these roles we construct play, and that as such it isn't a matter of simply another step in our natural evolution but rather a question of an anti-evolutionary, inorganic anomaly that we have to deal with. by which i refer to the growing military industrial complex tendency towards complete bureaucratization and blind capitalism. naturally.

of course. I can't believe I didn't get all of that from your original sentence.

Bane of your existence · 04-01-2009, 05:49 PM

The Third Policeman- I think his name was O'brien? I left it in the bed. But it's great and I strongly reccomend it to everyone.

To that other issue, someone make a thread cause I want to add some and don't want to thread jack.

FaSho · 04-02-2009, 03:20 PM

Aww yeah bitches.

glutoro · 04-02-2009, 03:21 PM

I'm about to start reading the Twilight series because I want to fit in.

04-01-2009, 05:16 PM	#1294 (permalink)
adidasss Slavic gay sauce Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 7,993	Yeah, make a topic people. __________________ “Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle. Last.fm

04-01-2009, 05:08 PM	#1293 (permalink)
cardboard adolescent ;) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA Posts: 3,503	well what is this "manhood" thing we're talking about? we're increasingly moving to a state where physical labor is replaced by machinery to most jobs can be fulfilled by most people, and it's more a matter of intelligence and will rather than physical standards. as such, the social distinctions based on those physical standards slowly degenerate since they no longer have anything substantial supporting them, except for nostalgia. pretty much we're moving towards a state where all human beings are functionally equivalent and are measured more and more in terms of economical production rather than whatever social constructs they cling to (this is due in part to globalization). however i would maintain that there is a certain degree of "innateness" which these roles we construct play, and that as such it isn't a matter of simply another step in our natural evolution but rather a question of an anti-evolutionary, inorganic anomaly that we have to deal with. by which i refer to the growing military industrial complex tendency towards complete bureaucratization and blind capitalism. naturally.

04-01-2009, 05:19 PM	#1296 (permalink)
333 Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 965	I'm sorry. I started this, but I already shut up and suggested that we make a topic. However, I am supposed to be running so off I go FOR REAL this time.

04-01-2009, 05:49 PM	#1298 (permalink)
Bane of your existence Such That Join Date: May 2007 Location: Austin, Tx Posts: 1,197	The Third Policeman- I think his name was O'brien? I left it in the bed. But it's great and I strongly reccomend it to everyone. To that other issue, someone make a thread cause I want to add some and don't want to thread jack.

04-02-2009, 03:21 PM	#1300 (permalink)
glutoro Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Cutest little town in Canada. Posts: 90	I'm about to start reading the Twilight series because I want to fit in.